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I'm quite happy to shell out a few quid to get a decent quality stream for football but which is best?

Last year I subscribed to liveonlinefooty but whilst quality was good it often crashed and occasionally was unavailable for long periods of the game

What are your experiences with paid sites and are they legal?

Although we're not allowed to talk about it, if I was allowed to talk about it I would say that the one you mention is about the best and we rarely lost coverage at all. Picture quality when fed to my 37" TV was a bit dubious though, but you cant have everything. As the season went on it was nearly all English commentary whereas earlier it was some Italian, Albanian and stuff.

Never had it unavailable for long periods, so maybe it's your area broadband or system or something?

Im not speaking about them,i would say for 2 notes a match everlasting supply of tea and crumpets its good value i may have heard of someone who likes discos who may have once or twice used these kind of sites.
He may or may not recommend them.

I think I've only had 1 problem ever with the public streams, and even then I was able to catch the second half.

I think this season there will be absolutely no problems. Also sometimes if I can't find my way to a stream I go check out my friend who is a TVUplayer, he can be confusing at times but absolutely has maps to lots of streams available from all over the world.

I concur with John, but I can't say any more.

The seasoncard stream can be satisfying and frustrating in equal measure but a bugger getting to it from the alps.

Patrick wrote:I'm quite happy to shell out a few quid to get a decent quality stream for football but which is best?

Last year I subscribed to liveonlinefooty but whilst quality was good it often crashed and occasionally was unavailable for long periods of the game

What are your experiences with paid sites and are they legal?

I still use this one - when it crashes, you need to start windows taskmanager and make sure the process has ended, if not you need to end it from there, then you can restart the program.

I personally just download Veetle and Sopcast for free and then I'm covered. Both high quality and very very rarely experience any problems.

sopcast is absolutely amazing. life savr. high quality, fast strem. it's got it all. when I can't get a good sopcast stream (rare) tvu is a good bet

I have used these guys for quite some time and they are quality.

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Patrick wrote:I'm quite happy to shell out a few quid to get a decent quality stream for football but which is best?

Last year I subscribed to liveonlinefooty but whilst quality was good it often crashed and occasionally was unavailable for long periods of the game

What are your experiences with paid sites and are they legal?

Patrick,

If you are serious about this, my suggestion is to do the following

1: Get a paid VPN set up which will allow you to select a Middle East country like Egypt, UAE, Jordan etc. it will cost about a fiver a month, I use 'hidemyass.com'

2: Sign up to jazeera sports, it is £50 for the year and shows every single premier league game live, many with English commentary

It's 100% legal, it's dirt cheap, it's HD quality and totally reliable

Patrick wrote:I'm quite happy to shell out a few quid to get a decent quality stream for football but which is best?

Last year I subscribed to liveonlinefooty but whilst quality was good it often crashed and occasionally was unavailable for long periods of the game

What are your experiences with paid sites and are they legal?

There are lots all about the same quality.

Can,t see why people are getting their knickers in a twist about mentioing sites as if sky are gonna stop transmitting a product which their business is founded on.Streams will never stop,it might get more expensive to watch them but thats about it.

well... fir 3pm non uk games its often hard IMO. for sky games you usually get amazing hd ace streams.

the only one that looks decent today is acestream but its currently in russian.

so should i buy onE? if so which?

Nick wrote:well... fir 3pm non uk games its often hard IMO. for sky games you usually get amazing hd ace streams.

the only one that looks decent today is acestream but its currently in russian.

so should i buy onE? if so which?

Well you could try what I suggested above, which will give you perfect quality hd streams at a reasonable cost.

shabs100 wrote:
I have used these guys for quite some time and they are quality.

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It is. Go back and delete it.

Ceefax for me. Can't go wrong

Im_Spartacus wrote:

Patrick wrote:I'm quite happy to shell out a few quid to get a decent quality stream for football but which is best?

Last year I subscribed to liveonlinefooty but whilst quality was good it often crashed and occasionally was unavailable for long periods of the game

What are your experiences with paid sites and are they legal?

Patrick,

If you are serious about this, my suggestion is to do the following

1: Get a paid VPN set up which will allow you to select a Middle East country like Egypt, UAE, Jordan etc. it will cost about a fiver a month, I use 'hidemyass.com'

2: Sign up to jazeera sports, it is £50 for the year and shows every single premier league game live, many with English commentary

It's 100% legal, it's dirt cheap, it's HD quality and totally reliable

I used to subscribe to Abu Dhabi Sports and use OverPlay's SmartDNS (so it doesnt effect my speed) and it worked wonders for last two seasons. This year however Abu Dhabi Sports have lost rights for Middle East so I subscribed to Al Jazeera ... fuckers let me sign up using SmartDNS no issues but comes the gameday, idiots have blocked that and it shows GeoBlocked message. So I hurridly go and buy OverPlay's VPN service (I know, it stinks having already paid for the SmartDNS) and lo and behold using the Egypt servers it does let me connect but their VPN servers are so slow and then Al Jazeera has a lot more load on their servers than what Abu Dhabi's usage was last year that the quality of the stream was so fucked up, I ended up watching a russian stream.

So basically all this fiddling around, I missed half the game today ... my first in over ... gosh, I don't even remember when I last missed a City game (and that obviously pissed me more than the game/result today).

Now I tried to get Al Jazeera to refund my $120 (£75) for the year long pass back but obviously they are not too inclined. I now have to figure out which VPN I can subscribe to which will give me an IP from somewhere in Middle East (and on good fucking fast servers, not the Egyptian crawlers) so I can perhaps work this for other Sat 3pm kickoffs later in the season.

Any suggestions from people who actually use this setup are welcome :)

AG7 wrote:
I used to subscribe to Abu Dhabi Sports and use OverPlay's SmartDNS (so it doesnt effect my speed) and it worked wonders for last two seasons. This year however Abu Dhabi Sports have lost rights for Middle East so I subscribed to Al Jazeera ... fuckers let me sign up using SmartDNS no issues but comes the gameday, idiots have blocked that and it shows GeoBlocked message. So I hurridly go and buy OverPlay's VPN service (I know, it stinks having already paid for the SmartDNS) and lo and behold using the Egypt servers it does let me connect but their VPN servers are so slow and then Al Jazeera has a lot more load on their servers than what Abu Dhabi's usage was last year that the quality of the stream was so fucked up, I ended up watching a russian stream.

So basically all this fiddling around, I missed half the game today ... my first in over ... gosh, I don't even remember when I last missed a City game (and that obviously pissed me more than the game/result today).

Now I tried to get Al Jazeera to refund my $120 (£75) for the year long pass back but obviously they are not too inclined. I now have to figure out which VPN I can subscribe to which will give me an IP from somewhere in Middle East (and on good fucking fast servers, not the Egyptian crawlers) so I can perhaps work this for other Sat 3pm kickoffs later in the season.

Any suggestions from people who actually use this setup are welcome :)

Check out the proxy locations on hidemyass, they have servers in jordan, saudi arabia morrocco (not sure if that will work with jazeera) as well as dozens of options for egypt.

Sometimes connecting via egypt is just a fucking nightmare for the reasons you mentioned, but the vpn services ive used generally give plenty of location options, and hma doesnt seem to kill the speed.

Anyone know of a paid stream which works if your laptop is in America? Or at least thinks it is?

Found a good quality stream today but it was only about 4" square, so you couldn't exactly sit back and enjoy it. Not that there was much to enjoy anyway

I'm just gonna check my mobi(le) to see if the news source has the info.